Divided-bed photographic camera.



N0. 712,334. Patented Oct. 28, |902.

J. A. RDBEBTSON &. C. E. HUTCHINGS.

DIVIDED BED PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA.

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No. 7l2,334. Patented Oct. 28. |902.,-

J. A. ROBERTSON &. C. E. HUTCHINGS.

DIVIDED BED PHUTOGRAPHIC CAMERA.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. ROBERTSON AND CHARLES E. I-IUTCHINGS, OF ROCHESTER, NEV YORK, ASSIGNORS TO ROCHESTER OPTICAL AND CAMERA COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEIV YORK.

DIVIDED-BED PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,334, dated October 28, 1902.

Application filed April 4, 1902, Snrial No. 101,401. (No model.)

T @ZZ whom t may concern: with respect to the box 1. As this construc- 5o Be it known that we, JOHN A. ROBERTSON tion, however, is fully described in a Separate and CHARLES E. HUTCHINGS, citizens of the application filed by us concurrently here- United States, residing at Rochester, in the with, Serial No. 101,398, a detailed descripcounty of Monroe and State of NewYork,have tion of the saine is not deemed necessary hereinvented new and useful Improvements in in. So far as the present invention is con- 55 Divided-Bed Photographic Cameras,of which cerned, the cross-bar 3 might be permanently the following is a speciiication. connected with or form a part of the bottom Our invention relates to photographic cam- 4 of the camera-box. lo eras of that class in which a divided or two- Hinged to the cross-bar 3 is a divided or part bed is employed provided with means two-part cover 5 for the front ofthe camera- 6o whereby one of said parts may be swung box, the saine serving whenin its horizontal downwardlyindependently of the other to enopen position as the camera-bed or as the able the camera to be used with a wide-angle support therefor. For clearness of descriplens at a short focus. tion we prefer to term the part 5 in this speci- The object of our invention is to provide fication the bedsupport, the bed as a 65 novel means for locking the two parts of the whole being made up of said bed-support 5, bed or bed-support in line with each other the extensible bed-section 6, and the extenand means for supporting the swinging part sible bed-section 7. These three parts conzo of said bed or bed-support from the other stitute an extension camera-bed of substanpart when the formeris moved toits depressed tially the same construction as that disclosed 7o or inclined position. in United States Letters Patent No. 682,081, Other objects and advantages of the invengranted to Charles Hutchings September 3, tion will hereinafter appear, and the novel 1901. The bed-support 5 is provided with a features thereof will be set forthin the claims. guideway 8, along which the extensible sec- In the drawings forming part of this speci- 'tion G is adapted to slide, and the section 6 is 75 lication, Figure l is a sectional elevation of provided with a guideway 9, along which the a camera embodying our improvements,show extensible section 7 is adapted to slide. Suiting the two parts of the divided bed locked able means for extending and retracting the 3o to each other in horizontal position. Fig. 2 sections of the bed are provided, the same beis a similar view showing the outer part of ing of substantially the same construction as 8o the divided bed swung downwardly. Figs. 3 that disclosed in the prior patent above reand 4are plan views showing the parts in the ferred to. In addition to its hinged connecpositions in which they appear in Figs. 1 and tion 10 with the cross-bar 3 the bed-support 2, respectively. Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective 5 is connected with the camera-box by means views of details of construction. -of the links 11, pivoted at their lower ends to 85 Like reference-numeralsindicate like parts lugs or brackets 12 on said bed-support and in the different views. provided with elongated slots 13, in which fit Our invention has been illustrated in conthe iixed pins or projections 14 on the inner 4o nection with a swing-back camera' in which surfaces of the sides of the camera-box. The

the sides of the camera-box 1 are pivoted at elongated slots 13 provide for the opening and 9o points intermediate their ends to the uprights closing movement of the bed-support, and the or supports 2, connected at their lower ends pins 14, which are adapted to engage the upby a cross-bar 3, located a short distance perends of the slots 13, serve to limit the downabove the bottom 4 of the camera-box, suitward movement of the bed-support in the able mechanism being provided for swinging usual manner. The bed-support 5 is itself 95 the box 1 on the pivots connecting it with the made in two parts, which during the ordinary supports 2 or for swinging the supports 2 operations of the device lie in the same plane and the connecting cross-bar 3 on said pivots with each other and form continuations one of the other. The part 15 of the bed-support is connected directly, by means of the hinge 10, with the cross-bar 3 and has secured to it the lugs or brackets 12, to which the links 11 are pivoted. The part 16 of the bed-support is hinged to the under side of the part 15, as shown at 17, and is adapted to swing downwardly on the hinges 17 independently of the part 15. It will be noted that the hinges 17 are located at a point adjacent to the hinge lO-that is, they are removed from the outer or forward edge of the part 15 of the bed-support. To provide for the connection of the part 16 of said bed-support with the hinges 17, the latter part is provided with an extension 18, which overlaps or covers the under side of the part 15. When the two parts 15 and 16 of the bed-support are in their normal positions, the upper. surfaces thereof lie in substantially the same plane, and the meeting edges thereof form a close joint. The guideway 8, heretofore referred to as being formed on the bed-support 5, must of necessity,in view of the constructionjust described, be made in two parts, secured, respectively, to the two parts 15 and 16 of said bed-support.

Secured to the part 16 of the bed-support, extending upwardly and rearwardly therefrom and cooperating with the links ll,are the-arms 19, the said arms being located adjacent to the opposite side edges of the part 16. The arms 19 are capable of lateral yielding movement, for which purpose the same are preferably constructed of spring metal, and the free ends of said arms are provided with laterally-extending lugs or projections 20, adapted to engage, and, in fact, normally engaging,v the inner edge of the links 11. When the parts are thus disposed, the outer part 16 of the bed-support is held locked to the part 15 thereof, and swinging movement of the lpart 16 on the hinges 17 is prevented. This movement of the part 16, however, is still further prevented, when the extensionbed is in its retracted position, by the engagement of the section 6 with the two parts of the guidewayS on the two parts 15 and 16 of the bed-support. When it is desired to use a wide-angle lens upon an object close to the camera, the sections 6 and 7 of the extensionbed are moved outwardly until the rear edge of the section 6 passes beyond the part 15 of the bed -support 5. The' free ends of the arms 19 are then moved laterally, so as to disengage the lugs or projections 20 thereon from the links 11. The part 16 of the bedsupport 5 may then be swung downwardly on the hinges 17,' so as to remove the same from the range of the wide-angle lens in the camera-front. To prevent the part 16' of the bedsupport from being swung downwardly too far and to support the same when in its depressed position, we form upon the springarms 19 the depending lingers or projections 21, which are adapted to engage the base portions of the lugs or brackets 12. The said ingers therefore constitute stops for limiting the downward-swinging movement of the part 16 of the bed-support and also serve to support the part 16 when in its depressed position.

It will be noted that when the part 16 of the bed-support is in its depressed position the runway 22 on the section 7 of the exten: sion-bed, on which the camera-.front is adapt ed to slide, is removed from its location above the part 15 of the bed-support. There is therefore no runway-over saidpart 15, and unless other means be provided therefor there is no means by which the camera-front may be moved for focusing purposes beyond the crossbar 3 in the camera-box. This would constitute a serious defect in the camera; but we obviate the same by providinga supplemental detachable runway extension 23, formed upon or secured to the block 24, adapted to `fit within the guideway 8 on the part 15 of the bedsupport 5. This runway extension 23 and the block 24 on which it is formed are only brought into use when the part 16 of the bed-support 5 is vdepressed and it is desired to form a continuation of the runway on the cross-bar 3 outwardly to and above the part 15 of the bedsupport 5. The block 24, with the runway extension 23 thereon, is normally located at some suitable point out of the way within the camera-box 1. To retain the same in place when not in use, we have shown guideways 25 on the inner surface of the top of the camera-box 1, in which the block 24 is adapted to fit. When the block 24 is inserted within the guideways 8 on the upper surface of the part 15 of the bed-su pport 5, the camera-front may be moved outwardly to a point above the part 15 of said bed-support for focusing purposes.

While the part 5 has been referred to throughout this specification as the bed-support, it may constitute the bed as a whole when the bed is not of the extension type, the same being provided with a suitable runway for the camera-front. Where the term bedsupport, therefore, is used in the following claims, it is intended that the same shall comprehend not on'ly the support or base portion of an extension-bed, but the bed as a whole.

Having now described our invention, what we claim is 1. In a photographic camera, a camera-box, a bed-support made in two parts, the inner of said parts being hinged to said box, and the outer of said parts being hinged -to the inner, links connecting the inner of saidiparts with said box, and means cooperating with said links for locking the two parts of said supports to each other.

2. In a photographic camera, a camera-box, a bed-support made in two parts, the inner of said parts being hinged to said box, and` the outer of said parts being hinged to the inner, links connecting the inner of said parts with said box, and locking connections between the outer of said parts and said links for retaining the two parts of said support in line with cach other.

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3. In a photographic camera, a camera-box, a bed-support madein two parts, the inner of said parts being hinged to said box, and the outer of said parts being hinged to the inner, links connecting the inner of said parts with said box, and laterally-movable arms on the outer of said parts having projections thereon adapted to engage said links for locking the two parts of said support in line with each other.

4. In a photographie camera, a camera-box, a bed-support made in two parts, the inner of said parts being hinged to said box, and the outer of said parts being hinged to the inner, links connecting the inner of said parts with said b0x,springarms secured to the outer of said parts extending upwardly and rearwardly, and projections on said arms adapted to engage the inner edges of said links for locking the two parts of said support in line with each other.

5. In a photographic camera, a camera-box, a bed-support made in two parts, the inner of said parts being hinged to said box, and the outer of said parts being hinged to the inner, links connecting the inner of said parts with said box, arms secured to the outer of said parts, extending upwardly and rearwardly therefrom, and having their free ends capable of lateral movement, projections on said arms adapted to engage said links for locking the two parts of said support in line with each other, and engaging portions on said arms cooperating with the inner of said part-s for limiting the downward swinging movement of the outer of said parts.

6.- In a photographic camera, a camera-box, a bed-support made in two parts, the inner of said parts being hinged to said box, and the outer of said parts being hinged to the inner, links connecting the inner of said parts with said box, spring-arms secured to the outer of said parts and extending upwardly and rearwardly therefrom, projections on said arms adapted to engage said links for locking the two parts of said support in line with each other, and depending fingers on said arms adapted to engage the inner of said parts, and constituting stops for limiting the downward swinging movement ofthe outer of said parts.

7. In a photographic camera, a camera-box, an extension-bed comprising a bed-support made in two parts and extensible bed-sections mounted thereon, theinner of said parts being hinged to said box, and the outer of said parts being hinged to the inner and adapted to be swung downwardly thereon, a detachable runway extension, and means for securing said runway extension to the inner of said parts.

8. In a photographic camera, a camera-box, an extension-bed comprising a bed-support made in two parts and extensible bed-sections mounted thereon, the inner of said parts being hinged to said box, and the outer of said parts being hinged to the inner and adapted to be swung downwardly thereon, alined guideways on the two parts of said bedsupport on which one of said bed-sections is adapted to slide, a detachable runway ex ten-7 o sion, and a support on which said extension is mounted adapted to fit with the guideways on the inner of said parts.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing wit- 7 5 nesses.

-IOHN A. ROBERTSON. OHAS. E. HUTCHINGS.

Witnesses:

FRED D. MORGAN, GEo. W. REILLY. 

